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by Blane Warrene

eWeek is reporting that use of Sun’s Cobalt OS, released as open source as the hardware line was retired this year, is experiencing an upswing.

The article details NetCraft results showing more than 900,000 sites using the Cobalt OS, up 47,000 since last year.

I used Cobalt servers between 1999 and 2002, and while I had some grievances with the platform, I must admit it was very convenient for mass deployment of web sites and ran reliably.

pkgmaster.com (www.pkgmaster.com), an important site for Cobalt users, provides the latest patches and appears to be staying alive post-Sun Cobalt. There is a link on the main page now which hints of a new enhanced Raq 550 interface system being built, obviously by someone other than Sun.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 30th, 2004 at 4:00 pm, contains 121 words, and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

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  1. Zack Says:
    September 28th, 2004 at 3:40 am

    Unfortunately, it appears that (www.pkgmaster.com) is now down. The pkg’s they hosted are no longer available.

    What’s another source for RaQ4i packages?

     
  2. bwarrene Says:
    September 28th, 2004 at 9:51 am

    I am corresponding with RaqTweak, an Amsterdam-based firm specializing in Cobalt consulting to find out how Cobalt users will see services and package availability evolve. Once I get some firm details from them I will blog it.

    I am also attempting to track down someone from pkgmaster.com.

     

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Blane is a writer and researcher focusing on Apple and Open Source technologies. Prior to this, he helped found a commercial software and consulting venture, and worked in the financial services sector as a director of technology and in varying technical roles. Blane maintains Open Sourcery: SitePoint's Open Source Blog.

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